The 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo, co-curated by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, takes place at two manifesto-buildings: Sesc 24 de Maio, and Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP) exhibiting ‘Everyday’ 10 site-specific devices that address the everyday by various artists and architects, from the screening booth of Beka&Lemoine ‘Homo Urbanos’ that shows the daily grind of humans living in city with 6 movies, to Bruther‘s ‘Cloud-Catcher’ that turns water into an experience affecting those using the pool deck everyday. Selected after an open call, some 70 works are exhibited at CCSP at ‘Architectures of the Everyday’, among which Li Tavor & Buzzis’ delicate sound installation about the thresholds of the buildings and the everyday moves we don’t perceive, the AI brooms of dorfundrust that take a tongue-in-cheek approach to maintenance and technology, and the simple but powerful bathroom extension in the Jardim Colombo favela of São Paulo by Ester Carro that epitomizes the discreet power of everyday to highlight how design is a relevant and common matter.

“The current state of unprecedented human and environmental impacts from climate change, including the latest global panic over the forest fires in the Amazon, is the backdrop for this event. Both the program and the participating projects attempt to reimagine how the everyday realm shapes our world in the 21st century, considering how recent geopolitical changes, revisions of the rule of law, and the challenges of an automated future might affect the daily life of humans and non-humans.

Todo dia/Everyday unfolds along three perspectives: Everyday Stories, Everyday Resources and Everyday Maintenance. Everyday Stories examines the myriad ways architects and other design professionals reinterpret the everyday, reporting stories linked to the production of space, ranging from the poetic subtleties of the quotidian to the revelation of the violence, and inequalities that affect lives daily. Everyday Resources addresses the growing awareness of architects, landscape designers, and urban planners with uses of everyday resources both in urban and rural contexts in the Anthropocene. Everyday Maintenance explores the maintenance of architecture and the city, a long overlooked subject now gaining attention in today’s political spheres and within technological research worldwide. ” (published on e-flux)

Curators: V. Grosman, C. Malterre-Barthes, C. Miguel, – Show is on at CCSP until 08.12.2019

Some press here:

Archdaily

Folha de São Paulo, and more

The huge amount of credits is to be found here, on the info link top right of the official webpage

1) Bruther, ‘Cloud Catcher’ 2) AdamoFaiden & Vao ‘What we see, what sees us’ ©Javier Agustin Rojas 3)Works by Philippe Rizzotti, Merve Bedir, Max Nunez at CCSP 4) Works by Ester Carro, TU Munich at CCSP by André Scarpa